accident " and have the song ' s tapes erased . he said that this was not to force abandonment of the song , but rather that it would be more effective to start again with a fresh performance . at one point , en ##o had the tapes cue ##d up and ready to be recorded over , but this eras ##ure never took place ; according to engineer flood , fellow engineer pat mccarthy returned to the control room and upon seeing en ##o ready to erase the tapes , dropped the tray of tea he was carrying and physically restrained en ##o . the studio version of the song was compiled from several different takes . it was one of several songs mixed by steve
accident " and have the song's tapes erased. he said that this was not to force abandonment of the song, but rather that it would be more effective to start again with a fresh performance. at one point, eno had the tapes cued up and ready to be recorded over, but this erasure never took place ; according to engineer flood, fellow engineer pat mccarthy returned to the control room and upon seeing eno ready to erase the tapes, dropped the tray of tea he was carrying and physically restrained eno. the studio version of the song was compiled from several different takes. it was one of several songs mixed by steve